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Margot Robbie Adapting Thriller “Beautiful Things” for Warner Bros.

Margot Robbie in “The Legend of Tarzan”: Warner Bros.

Margot Robbie is adding more projects to her slate via her LuckyChap Entertainment company. As THR reports, Robbie, producer Denise Di Novi, Di Novi Pictures’ Alison Greenspan, and Warner Bros. are teaming up to adapt the novel “Beautiful Things.”

The novel, by Gun Phillips, is a thriller told over the course of three hours and follows the story of a mother and son trapped in a zoo with a gunman. Phillips’ own description of her novel reads: “The zoo is nearly empty late one afternoon as Joan and her four-year-old son, Lincoln, soak up the last few minutes of the day. They are playing in a sandpit, half-hidden by tall trees, with the shadows and sunlight shifting over the gravel paths as Lincoln’s action figures announce evil plans and secret weapons. It is something close to perfect. So when Joan hears shots crack through the air, it seems foolish to think the distant sounds are anything other than construction work or practice fireworks for a Halloween celebration.”

Back in September, Robbie signed a first look deal with Warner Bros. As part of the arrangement, Robbie already has two projects set: a “Suicide Squad” spinoff for her character Harley Quinn and other female-villains of the DC Comics universe, and “Queen of the Air,” in which she’ll play a trapeze artist.

Robbie and LuckyChap also have the neo-noir thriller “Terminal” in the can and are developing the Tonya Harding biopic, “I, Tonya,” and an adaptation of “Bad Monkeys,” a novel by Matt Ruff, for Universal.

The financial success of Warner Bros. films like “Suicide Squad” and “The Legend of Tarzan,” though critically panned, helped solidify Robbie’s relationship with the studio. It comes as no surprise that the best part of “Suicide Squad” was Robbie’s Harley Quinn, just as Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman was the best part of “Batman V Superman.” With more actresses taking charge of their careers and turning to production, better representation is sure to follow.


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